What are peanuts, shrimp, and spinach doing in the Iraq bill?

Posted on March 24, 2007 by John Rutledge

March 23, 2007. This week the House passed a$124 billion legislation Iraq funding bill that adds $21 billion in domestic pork projects to the $95.5 billion requested by the Administration. The spending includes includes $74 million for peanut storage, $283 million in milk subsidies, $120 million for the shrimp and menhaden fishing industries, $35 million for NASA and $25 million for spinach growers. The Senate version of the overall legislation totals $122 billion.

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0 Responses to What are peanuts, shrimp, and spinach doing in the Iraq bill?

  1. Goumindong says:
    March 24, 2007 at 8:22 PM

    Lower level? Havent bothered to read much about the last congress have you?

    It is more likly that the pork was added at the request of republicans and democrats to enable to bill, which sets deadlines for withdrawl, to be passed.

    But i dont know the specifics of the bill in question.

    The real issue which should be discussed is the strength of the agricultural lobby.

  2. Lawrence says:
    March 24, 2007 at 11:30 AM

    Correct me if I am wrong, but wasnt this suppose to be the ethical congress we ever had. Now I know the Republicans dont have much room to critize pork barrel spending when one of the reasons they got their butts kicked in November was because of it, but the Dems have really dropped to much lower level.